Shot in the Dark

Category: The Collapsing Church

  • Righteous Battle

    I grew up Presbyterian – and remained in the church because I believe the Presbyterian Book of Workship puts less temporal BS between God and the Man who wants to study Him than any of the alternatives. The Presbyterian Church and the people who work within it have been a huge influence on my life.…

  • The Bullied Pulpit

    Remember last year, in the immediate aftermath of the Dobbs decision, when Kansas referred a constitutional amendment banning abortion to a popular vote… …and it lost? In deep-red (but for Wichita and Kansas City) Kansas? Big Left took it as a bit of great news – “Even Red America is pro-choice!” Smarter Americans read it…

  • Church, State, And The Condition Of The Soul

    It’s been a longstanding issue — how does the Catholic Church deal with politicians who are Catholic, but who actively support policies inimical to the faith? Especially now, since Joe Biden, a lifelong Catholic, is in the Oval Office? The nation’s bishops are meeting this week and the matter is coming to a head: This…

  • Not An Animal

    “Protect” Minnesota has a new executive director. We’ll come back to that. Modern American “progressivism”, like all its many forebears in the past 200 years, has been all about rallying people against boogeymen. From “monarchists” in the French Revolution, to “Wreckers” in Stalin’s USSR to the Wobbly’s “Bosses”, up through “the patriarchy” and “the man”…

  • Grab A Hammer

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A Jew turned Christian turned Evangelical says Christians “sold” their principles in supporting Trump.  Time to move beyond social battles and forsake the politics of hate, fear and violence.  Time to embrace gun control.  Time to be like Episcopalians. In other words, Never Trump. He’s not alone.  Catholic bishops…

  • Oh Grouse All Ye Faithful

    I left the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) a few years ago because of the relentless politicization of their services, But on Christmas even, I went back to a local PCUSA congregation for their Christmas Eve concert service; the church has a choir and chamber orchestra and they do a really really excellent musical service. Given…

  • Virtue Preaching

    The Methodists, like the Presbyterian Church in the USA that I grew up in (and, it’d seem much of American Catholicism to boot) is slowly spinning itself into an institution that observes a holy trinity; social justice the mother, political correctness the other mother, and virtue-signaling the spirit. Witness the United Methodists’ bishop, Dr, Karen…